Scuttled ship

"We are an unimaginative lot when it comes to naming things." The title of this article is conjectural. Although this article is based on canonical information, the actual name of this subject is pure conjecture.

Unknown
Career information
Notable crew members	Chaplain Helmsman Frightened sailor Billy Quentin
Technical information
Type	Merchantman
Weapons	4 cannons
Affiliation	Merchant marine
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Dead Man's Chest
Last appearance	At World's End (video game)
Cause	Destroyed by the Kraken

"Could that be the Dutchman?"
"That wreck? Unlikely. Times may have turned tough for old Davy, but he won't be run afoul of any shoals. And it's too small. The real Flying Dutchman is much...bigger, in a frightening, slime-covered, monstrous sort of way."

―Will Turner and Jack Sparrow

This scuttled ship was a vessel active in the Age of Piracy. While sailing somewhere in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the ship was attacked by the Kraken, becoming a shipwreck on the shoals near an archipelago. As the scuttled ship lay on the shoals, the main deck slanted into the sea, Will Turner climbed aboard the scuttled ship, believing it to be Davy Jones' ship, the Flying Dutchman.

History

Little is known of the ship's history, other than that it would suddenly come under attack from the Kraken, a mythological creature that did the bidding of Davy Jones, likely in order to bring more souls onto the Flying Dutchman. The ship was attacked somewhere in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, along the shoals near an archipelago. Most of the ship's crew were killed, with one crew member's face having been sucked clean off by the Kraken's giant tentacles, and the ship itself was split in half as a shipwreck, the main deck slanted into the sea.

The scuttled ship lying on the shoals near an archipelago.

During the search for the Dead Man's Chest, Jack Sparrow and Will Turner visited the voodoo priestess Tia Dalma, who used crab claws to cast a spell to reveal the direction of Davy Jones's ship, the Flying Dutchman. The Black Pearl sailed to the archipelago that matched the outline of the claws on Tia Dalma's table, where Sparrow and Turner found the scuttled ship lying on the shoals, the main deck slanted into the sea. Sparrow told Turner that the shipwreck was Davy Jones' ship, the Flying Dutchman. On board the scuttled ship, Will encountered the surviving members of the crew in various conditions. There was a crew member manning some rigging, one hid behind a cargo net and another hung from the rigging, apparently dead. The traumatized crew member manning the rigging implied that the Kraken was underneath the ship as they spoke. Another crew member was spouted onto the deck, only for Will to find that his face had been sucked off by the Kraken's suckers. However, as Will Turner searched the shipwreck, finding its crew dead or dying, the real Flying Dutchman arose from the sea.

As the Flying Dutchman surfaced next to the scuttled ship, the shipwreck was soon attacked by the Dutchman's crew, with Will captured along with the surviving members of the scuttled ship's crew. After Maccus counted five men still alive, Davy Jones appeared on the scuttled ship to recruit the survivors onto the Dutchman. The ship's chaplain was killed by Davy Jones' crew, because he told them not to listen to Davy, while others were recruited along with Turner (who never actually swore an oath). What happened to the wreck of this vessel afterwards is unknown.

Behind the scenes

"No...beneath us...foul breath...waves took Billy and Quentin...captain's orders!"

―Frightened Sailor

The scuttled ship first appeared in Irene Trimble's junior novelization of the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. This ship was portrayed by the slightly altered set of the destroyed Edinburgh Trader, another ship sunk by the Kraken.

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay for Dead Man's Chest, the archipelago where the scuttled ship was located was described as being in the Caribbean Sea. As Will Turner climbs aboard the scuttled ship, "Billy" and "Quentin" were the only two crewmen named by the Frightened Sailor. After the arrival of the Flying Dutchman, Maccus tells Davy Jones that there are six men still alive, including Will Turner, from aboard the scuttled ship. While the information was retained in the film's junior novelization, the final cut of the film has "Billy" and "Quentin" unmentioned, and Maccus names "six" men alive.

In the Dead Man's Chest video game, Jack Sparrow personally boards this ship and fights some undead crewmen before the Flying Dutchman rises out of the sea and he sends Will Turner to board it.

Unlike in the movie Dead Man's Chest, the ship as featured in the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 versions of the video game adaptation for At World's End is still in one piece, much larger, and it's painted like a British Royal Navy ship of the line.

Although the archipelago and the scuttled ship in Dead Man's Chest was described as being located somewhere in the Caribbean Sea through the film's screenplay as well as the junior novelization, the exact location was never clarified in the film itself. It may be considered that the Gulf of Mexico first appeared in Dead Man's Chest, due to the location of the scuttled ship in the world map featured in PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 versions of the At World's End video game.

Appearances

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization) (First appearance)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: The Movie Storybook
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (comic)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (video game)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (video game)
• LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Non-canonical appearance)

Notes and references

Other ships in Pirates of the Caribbean
Ships in Pirates of the Caribbean Anabelle – Bronze ship – Fantasia – Flying Dutchman – Grand Barnacle – Mackie Shackles's ship Molly Dover – Scuttled ship – Shrimper's ship – Terpsichore – Viking ship
[edit]